In a.d. 1823, three years before he died, Thomas Jefferson chose as the Motto for the University of Virginia
"You shall know the truth, and the truth shall set you free." Those words come from the Gospel of Saint John, Chapter 8, Verse 32, and are the Words of Jesus Christ...

Saturday, October 07, 2006

A New View of Jefferson and his Declaration...

The first sheet here is an extract from the following five page essay. It is an "Executive Overview" of sorts.

It is useful as a one page "Seed of Truth" to share with skeptics and critics of Thomas Jefferson.

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Who? Me?

"Master of American History" per John McCaslin of The Washington Times on 29 Nov 2005; in 2003 wrote a "Revolutionary" Christmas play telling of the true first Statue of Liberty of a black boy soldier - who gave his life for your Liberty; in 2002 in-person history work was compared by Delegate Lee Ware to the work of David McCullough in books; from 1998 to 2001 former member of the Board of Visitors to Mount Vernon appointed by Governor Gilmore.
At age 12, wrote a 168 page paper on the War Between The States encouraged by my mentor from church, Ralph McGill. *** McGill was the Publisher of The Atlanta Constitution, and instructed me at age 10 to read and love "tHis Constitution FOR the United States of America" because as a young reporter, McGill witnessed the Austrians vote away their written Constitution for the promises of the government, the Nazi government! I ask how far are we in America from voting away our God given Constitution? ***
Ralph McGill received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in a.d. 1964, and the Pulitzer Prize in a.d. 1959. I was blessed by McGill's mentorship for he was called: "The Conscience of the South".